The Smith Founder and Ornamental Metal-Worker's Director consisting of designs and patterns for gates piers balcony-railing window-guards fanlights verandahs ballustrades for staircases lamp-irons palisades brackets street-lamps stove stands for lamps and gas-lights candlesticks chandeliers vases tripods candelabra etc with various useful ornaments at large selected composed and published by Cottingham, Archt 1823
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Type of record: Book
Title: The Smith Founder and Ornamental Metal-Worker's Director consisting of designs and patterns for gates piers balcony-railing window-guards fanlights verandahs ballustrades for staircases lamp-irons palisades brackets street-lamps stove stands for lamps and gas-lights candlesticks chandeliers vases tripods candelabra etc with various useful ornaments at large selected composed and published by Cottingham, Archt 1823
Other titles: The smith and founder's director containing a series of designs and patterns for ornamental iron and brass work by Cottingham Architect
Classmark: Bedford Collection A615
Creator(s): Cottingham, L N (1787-1847)
Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner)
Publisher: Printed by C Hullmandel May be had of the Author 66 Gt Queen Stt. Lincoln's Inn Fields, London
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1823 [May 1824]
Language: English
Size and medium: 1 v
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/729106
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019865849505181
Collection group(s): John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History
Description
Title and imprint information taken from front cover. Varying form of title from half title page. Back cover has brief advertisement for Parallel of Gothic architecture, and is dated May 3rd, 1824. 66, great Queen Street.
Plates: title, numbered 1-58, 60-71, A1 to A5, 77-84.
Plates dated 1823 and 1824 [from 61].
Features
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A615: loose typed excerpt from sale catalogue with additions in Jjohn Bedford's hand.
Bindings
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A615: contemporary publisher's printed boards, re-backed.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A615: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: MO/5. MS. annotations in French on certain plates.
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